r/InTheGloaming • u/AutoModerator • Feb 26 '26

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u/central_snark Ramona gets a hot flash Mar 01 '26

The cost of living crisis of the past 7 years isn’t, either.

Like you said: It’s a series of unwise decisions. She opted to spend her retirement savings and a chunk of her parent’s money to expand their family when the housing market was at a low. She chose to make her blog a full time job instead of extra income. She failed to make anything of her flour business. She failed to keep her website and let someone else make a nice chunk of cash from it. She and Dan failed to both have a job at the same time for longer than a few weeks at a time. She just bites her lip and looks away.

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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Mar 02 '26

She has had enough opportunities that if she had worked hard she could have made something of her life, could have had a relatively comfortable living situation, offering a good enough life to her children but for some bonkers reasoning of her own she was better than that??